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Australia At The 1952 Summer Olympics
Australia competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. 81 competitors, 71 men and 10 women, took part in 67 events in 12 sports. Australian athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games. As the country hosted the next Olympics in Melbourne, an Australian segment was performed at the closing ceremony. Medalists Gold * Marjorie Jackson-Nelson — Athletics, Women's 100 metres * Marjorie Jackson-Nelson — Athletics, Women's 200 metres * Shirley Strickland — Athletics, Women's 80m Hurdles * Russell Mockridge — Cycling, Men's 1000m Time Trial * Lionel Cox and Russell Mockridge — Cycling, Men's 2000m Tandem * John Davies — Swimming, Men's 200m Breaststroke Silver * Lionel Cox — Cycling, Men's 1000m Sprint (Scratch) * Mervyn Wood — Rowing, Men's Single Sculls Bronze * Shirley Strickland — Athletics, Women's 100 metres * David Anderson, Phil Cayzer, Ernest Chapman, Tom Chessel, Mervyn Finlay, Nimrod Greenwoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Olympic Committee
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia may also refer to: Places * Name of Australia relates the history of the term, as applied to various places. Oceania *Australia (continent), or Sahul, the landmasses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Chessel
Thomas Edmund Malcolm Chessell (1 April 1914 – 9 May 1992) was an Australian representative rowing coxswain and an active serviceman of WWII. As a coxswain he was an Olympian - coxing the Australian men's eight at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and was a three-time Australian national champion. Birth and education Tom Chessell was born in Ashfield, New South Wales, and attended Newington College (1929–1931) where he started rowing. As a cox he represented Newington at the Head of the River in the 2nd IV in 1930 and the 1st VIII in the following year. Building career Forced by the Great Depression to leave school, Chessell worked for his family's building company and studied building at Sydney Technical College. He worked in the building industry all his life and was Chief Building Inspector for Ku-ring-gai Council on his retirement in 1975. War service At the outbreak of World War II, Chessell joined the RAAF as a carpenter/rigger serving in the Middle East for two a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don MacMillan
Donald Robertson Thomson MacMillan (5 January 1928 – 19 November 2004) was an Australian middle-distance runner. He competed in the 800 metres at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, whi ..., but failed to reach the finals. In 1952, he placed ninth in the final of the 1500 m event. At the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, MacMillan finished seventh over 1 mile in 1950, and won a bronze medal in the 4×440 yd relay in 1954. References 1928 births 2004 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics Australian male middle-distance runners Olympic athletes for Australia Place of birth missing Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Commonwealth Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris Curotta
Morris Joseph Curotta (24 March 1929 – 28 October 2002) was an Australian track and field athlete. In the 1948 Summer Olympics he competed in the 100 metres, 400 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay. In the 1952 Summer Olympics he competed in the 400 metres, 4 × 100 metres relay and 4 × 400 metres relay The 4 × 400 metres relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams consist of four runners who each complete 400 metres or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, th .... Competition record ReferencesSports Reference 1929 births 2002 deaths Australian male sprinters Olympic athletes for Australia Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing {{Australia-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 Metres
The men's 400 metres sprint event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between July 24 and July 25. Seventy-one athletes from 35 nations competed. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by George Rhoden of Jamaica, the second consecutive title in the event by a Jamaican. Herb McKenley repeated his silver medal performance from 1948, becoming the second man to win two medals in the event (after Guy Butler of Great Britain in 1920 and 1924). Summary In their second Olympics, the Jamaican team came with the top runners including the world record holder George Rhoden and returning gold and silver medalists, Arthur Wint and Herb McKenley, respectively. In the final, Rhoden on the far outside in lane 7 was unable to see the competitors staggered behind him. Alone he went out hard. The stagger behind him in lane 6, Ollie Matson, who like Rhoden trained in San Francisco, stayed in Rhoden's shadow, trying to mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 200 Metres
The men's 200 metres sprint event at the 1952 Olympic Games took place between July 22 and July 23. There were 71 competitors from 35 nations. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The final was won by American Andy Stanfield. Americans also took silver (Thane Baker) and bronze ( Jim Gathers) as the United States swept the medals in the event for the third time (1904, 1932). Background This was the 11th appearance of the event, which was not held at the first Olympics in 1896 but has been on the program ever since. One of the six finalists from the 1948 Games returned: sixth-place finisher Leslie Laing of Jamaica. Andy Stanfield, the inaugural world record setter for 200 metres around a curve and winner of three AAU titles, was the favorite. Bulgaria, Guatemala, Israel, Nigeria, South Korea, the Soviet Union, Thailand, and Venezuela each made their debut in the event. The United States made its 11th appearance, the only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Carr (athlete)
Edwin William Carr Jr. (2 September 1928 – 25 March 2018) was an Australian athlete. He was a gold medallist in the 440 yards and 4 x 440 yard relay at the 1950 British Empire Games and also competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. In addition to his athletic career, Carr was also a surgeon. After the Helsinki Olympics, he completed his studies in medicine and surgery at the University of Sydney. He was visiting honorary surgeon at Blacktown Hospital from 1965 to 1984, and was a military surgeon at Ingleburn Army Camp in Sydney. In 1970, he did a tour of duty in the Vietnam War as a surgeon at the Australian field hospital in Vũng Tàu. In 2000, a portrait of him was hung in the Archibald Prize painted by Ann Morton. That year, he was one of the former Australian Olympians who participated in the Torch Relay before the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athletics At The 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 Metres
The men's 100 metres sprint event at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland was held at the Olympic Stadium on 20 and 21 July. Seventy-two athletes from 33 nations competed; each nation was limited to 3 runners. The final was won by American Lindy Remigino, the fourth consecutive victory by a different American. Herb McKenley won Jamaica's first medal in the men's 100 metres with his silver, while McDonald Bailey's bronze put Great Britain on the podium for the first time since 1928. The final was "probably the closest mass finish in Olympic 100 metre history" with the first four runners all clocking in at 10.4 seconds hand-timed, all six finalists within 0.12 seconds electric-timed (10.79 for first, 10.91 for sixth), and a photo finish necessary to separate the winners. Background This was the twelfth time the event was held, having appeared at every Olympics since the first in 1896. None of the medalists from 1948 returned, but sixth-place finisher McDonald Bailey (who h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Treloar (athlete)
John Francis Treloar (19 January 192823 July 2012) was a track and field athlete, who is considered to have been one of Australia's greatest male sprinters. He was ranked as one of the world's fastest men between 1947 and 1952. A triple gold medallist at the 1950 British Empire Games, Treloar made the 100 m final at the 1952 Summer Olympics finishing sixth – just 0.1 s behind the winner – in the closest finish in Olympic history. In his career, Treloar won a total of six Australian championships at 100 or 220 yards. Treloar died on 23 July 2012. His son notified the Australian Olympic Committee of his father's death on 23 July; in this notification he stated that "Dad passed away exactly as he ran. Quickly." Awards and other honours In 2000, Treloar was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for "(o)utstanding service as an Olympic athlete and since then as an administrator and event organiser." Treloar was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vern Barberis
Verdi "Vern" Barberis (27 June 1928 – 6 January 2005) was an Australian lightweight Olympic weightlifting, weightlifter. Barberis grew up in Melbourne and attended the University of Melbourne and studied science. He won a bronze medal at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand, lifting a total of . This was the first time that weightlifting had been contested at the Games. He won another bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics, becoming the first Australian to win a weightlifting medal at the Olympics. Later at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games he became the first Australian to win a weightlifting gold medal at a major international competition. The seven-time national champion rounded out his career at the 1956 Summer Olympics in his home city of Melbourne, where he finished 11th. Barberis was the first Australian lightweight to clean and jerk over which at the time exceeded the Victorian heavyweight record. His Australian records stood for many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Willamson
Geoffrey Williamson (10 July 1923 – 17 September 2009) was an Australian rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics. His senior rowing was done from the Leichhardt Rowing Club Leichhardt Rowing Club formed in 1886 is one of the oldest rowing clubs in Sydney, Australia. The clubhouse has occupied sites on Port Jackson's, Iron Cove at Leichhardt, New South Wales, Leichhardt since 1886. Leichhardt is an all-level competiti ... in Sydney. In 1952 he was a crew member of the Australian boat which won the bronze medal in the eights event. Four years later he rowed on the five seat of the Australian boat which was eliminated in the semi-final of the coxless four competition. External links *Notice of Geoff Williamson's death {{DEFAULTSORT:Williamson, Geoff 1923 births 2009 deaths Australian male rowers Olympic rowers for Australia Rowers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Tinning
Robert Noel Tinning (25 December 1925 – 19 May 2001) was an Australian rower who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. Club and state rowing He was schooled at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill where he took up rowing. His senior club rowing was done from the Sydney Rowing Club. Tinning's first state selection for New South Wales came in 1949 in the men's senior eight contesting the King's Cup at the annual Australian Interstate Regatta. Tinning rowed in the bow seat of the 1949 New South Wales eight who won the King's Cup. He rowed in further New South Wales King's Cup eights in 1950, 1951 and 1952. Those crews were victorious in 1950 and in 1951 by a blistering four length margin. International representative rowing The entire 1949 New South Wales King's Cup crew was selected to represent Australia in competition at the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland. Tinning was in that crew who won the gold medal in the eights competition. For the 1952 Helsinki Olympics an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
